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UNCLAS UNESCO PARIS FR 001587 
 
SIPDIS 
 
E.O. 12958: N/A 
TAGS: SCUL PREL UNESCO
SUBJECT: 183RD UNESCO EXECUTIVE BOARD ELECTION RESULTS 
 
¶1.  Summary:  UNESCO's newly reconstituted Executive Board for the 
2009-2011 term met for a one-day meeting on November 23, where the 
principal business on the agenda was the election of a new Chairman 
and members of the Board's subsidiary committees and commissions. 
End summary. 
 
¶2.  UNESCO's 183rd Executive Board elected Eleonora MITROFANOVA 
(Russian Federation ambassador) as its new Chairman.  58 member 
states voting. No invalid ballots. 56 yes; 2 abstentions. 
 
¶3.  The following member states were elected as Vice-Chairs of the 
Executive Board by acclamation. (Clean slates were reached within 
each geographic group): 
 
Group I - Germany 
Group II - Latvia 
Group III - Argentina 
Group IV - Japan 
Group V(a) - Cote d'Ivoire 
Group V(b) - Morocco 
 
¶4.  The Executive Board then elected the following committees and 
committee chairs: 
 
Programme and External Relations Commission (PX) 
Chair: Ms. Shahnaz Wazir ALI (Pakistan) 
Plenary Commission - all states are members 
 
Finance and Administrative Commission (FA) 
Chair: Ms. Alissandra CUMMINS (Barbados) 
Plenary Commission - all states are members 
 
Special Committee (SP) 
Chair: Ms. Irene RABENORO (Madagascar) 
 
Group I:  Denmark, Greece, Monaco 
Group II: Poland, Russia, Uzbekistan 
Group III: Haiti, El Salvador, Grenada 
Group IV: Bangladesh, Japan, Vietnam 
Group V(a): Djibouti, Madagascar, Zimbabwe Group V(b): Algeria, 
Kuwait, Syria 
 
Committee on Conventions and Recommendations (CR) 
Chair: Mr. Maurizio SERRA (Italy) 
 
Group I: France, Germany, Italy, Spain, USA 
Group II: Belorussia, Poland, Romania, Slovakia 
Group III: Chile, Cuba, Peru, St. Lucia, Venezuela Group IV: China, 
India, Malaysia, Philippines, Republic of Korea 
Group V(a): Burkina Faso, Cote d'Ivoire, Kenya, Niger, Senegal 
Group V(b): Algeria, Saudi Arabia, Syria, Tunisia, Egypt 
 
Non-Governmental Organizations (NGO) 
Chair: Mr. Hany HELAL (Egypt) 
 
Group I:  Denmark, France, Greece, Italy 
Group II: Latvia, Russia, Slovakia 
Group III: Cuba, El Salvador, Peru, Venezuela 
Group IV: China, Kazakhstan, Mongolia, Pakistan 
Group V(a): Burkina Faso, Congo, Democratic Republic of Congo, 
Zambia 
Group V(b): Egypt, Kuwait, Saudi Arabia, Morocco 
 
FA Experts Group 
 
Group I:  Belgium, USA 
Group II: Latvia, Russia 
Group III: Chile 
Group IV: India, Japan 
Group V(a): Ghana, Tanzania 
Group V(b): Algeria, Morocco 
 
Note:  The FA Experts Chairman will be selected at the Financial 
Experts Groups' first meeting 
 
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